Everyone else who has any sense: llms are shit and you shouldn’t trust them with executive power.

You: just the cheap ones.

Me: no, all of them. What kind of lunatic trusts control of anything important to a fundamentally stochastic process?

I love how your response to the catastrophic results of stupidly trusting ai is “pay more money to ai companies”.

Sane person’s response: don’t trust llms.

My mail provider isn’t that big. We got blocked by both outlook and gmail, but I duckduckwent a workaround which worked. Something about editing some mail record somewhere. Can’t remember what, I’m afraid.

Wow. I think if I lived in that sort of climate I might not be driving an electric car. But I also think the likelihood of me moving to a climate that hostile is low. Keep safe out there!

True, but I don’t need to charge at -30C, and this thing charges FAST.

Even some commercial less well known mail providers are sometimes blocked by big players like gmail and outlook for anti-spam reasons.

I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.

Ah. I use regex replace every week with matching substrings a good few times a month. It’s not any slower to load than notepad and considerably less annoying.

The only time it’s ever in the least bit slow to load is when it’s on a onedrive folder at work and Microsoft don’t cache it locally so there’s a delay getting the thing in the first place.

Does metapad have regex find and replace? If so, smaller and even faster is appealing.

WordPad writes fairly clean rtf. Word writes incredibly bloated messy rtf. No, I don’t want to use a .docx or .pdf generating library, I just wanna slap some strings together and have it come out ready to print yet editable by non techy users. I use wordpad to write my templates.

I use EditPadLite and have done for a loong time. It has regex find and replace, is fast and you can tell it to display word wrapped or not, numbered lines or not, font, size, colours, syntax highlighting scheme, all based on file extensions. I have it as my default text editor and for all kinds of other files as well as text.

If I want to do major coding, I fire up the IDE and choose from my recent projects, but if I want to quickly edit some xml or a single source file, I double click it and edit it in EditPadLite.

If you’re still on windows 10, notepad is fine, but you might not be getting security updates for the whole OS. If you’re on windows 11, notepad is annoying, bloated, has AI, and is a security risk. Also the OS updates you are getting might well be written by AI, and we all know how infallible AI is, right?

Bold of them to write such horseshit about Republicans not moving right while ice squads dressed like thugs shoot people in the street, abduct anyone who looks vaguely less white and puts them in detention or deports them with no legal process.

But no, start your study conveniently at the end of the Reagan/Gingritch era and then do tell me why this is all Obama’s fault because (checks notes) Republicans didn’t used to be this implacably opposed to abortion and (checks notes again) both parties moved on racism and healthcare. Yes, I see why the poor rural conservatives felt “left behind” by radicalised perspectives like “not all black people deserve to be treated like slaves” and “let’s have some sort of subsidy for privatised healthcare”.

There’s a special sort of dumb that some clever people have where they refuse to see reality.

This study is a croc of shit. Its conclusions don’t even match the content they chose to summarise.

Yes, definitely but I’m particularly worried that Thailand has a reputation for sex tourism, mail order spouses and underage people trapped in sex work.

Who is surprised that the international pedophile ring of rich and powerful men that contains Donald Trump also contains Vladimir Putin? I’m not.

Thailand should definitely be in top 10!

I’m not entirely sure that all of the trans people are safe and well treated in Thailand.

in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

I thought the act required the (partially redacted) release of all of the files, not the release of roughly half of them. What’s in the other half, mr trump?

All that shit’s gonna come home to roost if Farage gets elected. Just like it has in the US because they let Trump win. Twice!

labour is the Enemy

This is a fucking shit take when the current poll leaders are reform.

Labour are a bit crap, but reform are truly awful. You sound like the idiots who thought Kamala was the worse choice.

The BBC gave him more air time on Question Time than any other politician by a huge, huge factor, and this was when he’d failed seven or so times to get elected as an MP.